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Iran International has learned that Iran’s satellite carrier rocket Zoljanah exploded after launch despite Tehran’s claim of its recent successful test-launch.

An Iranian banking official says enforcing newly ordered strict dress code – or hijab – restrictions on clients will result in banks losing customers.

A cleric who has long been a top judge in Iran has acknowledged that the Islamic Republic massacred political prisoners in the summer of 1988.

Russia’s Vladimir Putin will visit Tehran next week for talks with Iranian and Turkish leaders within the Astana mechanism related to Syria, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.

Iran's exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi says as long as Iranian women are not free, Iran will not be free, calling on men to be in the front lines in this struggle to support women.

Social media posts from Iran indicate many women left home Tuesday without hijab in response to calls from activists to defy the government’s forced dress code.

Iran has rejected criticism by President Joe Biden, insisting it is the most stabilizing regional force, as Washington says Tehran may deliver drones to Russia.

The family of the Belgian aid worker being held in Iran has pleaded to their government to do “everything necessary” to secure his release.

A website in Tehran has released parts of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s memoirs, shedding light on the politics surrounding Iran's nuclear program.

The Cannes Film Festival has called for the immediate release of filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof, Mostafa Alehahmad and Jafar Panahi, detained by Iran in recent days.

The Iranian foreign minister, who has traveled to Italy, says the Islamic Republic seeks to have its share in the energy market, and reviving the nuclear deal should guarantee it.

One day before a planned anti-hijab protest, Iran’s security arrested families of the victims of the 2019 protests accusing them of “trying to instigate riots”.

Croatian football (soccer) manager Dragan Skocic has been dismissed as Iran’s head coach with little more than four months to the World Cup finals in Qatar.

An Iranian lawmaker says the Islamic Republic’s model of governance has created conditions where the people are ignored.

While cholera is spreading in western Iran there are reports of deadly outbreaks of the disease in Afghanistan and Iraq, raising concerns of a regional pandemic.

Traders in Iran left Binance, the world’s biggest crypto exchange, only late 2021, despite US ‘maximum pressure’ sanctions imposed in 2018, Reuters said Monday.

Award-winning Iranian film director Jafar Panahi was arrested Monday as he was protesting the detention of two other moviemakers at Tehran’s Evin prison.

Amid Iran’s a hash crackdown on ‘bad-hijab women’ and a growing resistance, a woman in northern Iran removed her headscarf in public but people did not allow police to arrest her.

Turkey was aware that a team of Iranian agents had entered the country in June to assassinate Israelis, before they were arrested, a local newspaper reported.

An Iranian official says that Venezuela has agreed to provide one million hectares of agricultural land for Iran’s overseas cultivation projects to secure food.

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has reacted to an opinion piece penned by President Joe Biden for the Washington Post, saying only Iran’s Supreme Leader agrees with you.